There are days I sit down to write and I just don’t feel “it” or anything closely resembling an “it”. When I first sat down to write this, for example, I was thinking of sharing about how seeking quotes and photo editing oftentimes leads me to breakthrough. Instead, I wrote this “Sometimes I write haiku lines, chunks of five-seven-five” and the extraordinary happened.
I lost all relationship to time and space even as construction trucks were jammering down my street, pulling up asphalt, laying new asphalt, honking their horns incessantly.
I wrote:
Five seven five chunks
Greet the blank page, blinking
Time to wake up, please!
Light blue paperclips
Lavender push pins stand by –
Hold it together….
Lost candleholder
Stands without its candlestick
Do you hear crying?
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Resting saltshaker
Not sure why its on my desk
Reclining in blue….
I simply sat here at my desk and moved my pencil, using whatever words fell into my mind while observing what is here, around me.
I gave up on the quote search and truth be told, I didn’t feel like searching for quotes, so instead I scooped up a syllable salad and ran with it, after I had found and quickly forgotten Brenda Euland’s quote: “The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
As I wrote and wrote and wrote, I truly didn’t want to stop collecting sounds and form, I just wanted to keep the gentle inhale and exhale of haiku to keep me going.
Red polka dot skirt
Swishing, twirling, kissing legs
1950’s style
Alas, I have words to capture and hold on the page for a lifetime or more.
Graze the word pastures
Nibble at the leaves of grass
Whitman’s soul watches
Looking back at these collections of haiku I realize I was following Ms. Euland’s directive all along: Puttering with syllables, happily dawdling writing. Now my smile has replaced the frustration and the natural contentment of my writer self has taken the reins again.
Join me, here, right now –
Throw your words on the canvas:
Blue, Yellow, Green….
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